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Newly Discovered Tulip-Shape Creature Challenges Classification
The Burgess Shale, in Canada, is an invaluable source of fossils; one that seems to prove that life 500 million years ago was much more diverse than is commonly thought. Now researchers from the...
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Jurassic Love Song
For paleontologists it is almost impossible to study sounds of the past. Sounds do not ossify. Yet fossils sometimes offer a solution. An international team of scientists has reconstructed the...
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Giant Fossil Penguin Reconstructed in New Zealand
Its name is Kairuku (“diver who returns with food,” in Maori) and lived 25 million years ago in New Zealand. It was the tallest among five species of penguins in the region, with a height of more than...
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Pic of the Day: Our Earliest Ancestor May Be a Worm
What you see in the picture is how we looked like 505 million years ago, according to a research published in the Biological Reviews journal. This fossil, named Pikaia gracilens, is the oldest known...
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Pic of the Day: Exceptionally Preserved Dinosaur Fossil
This fossil, found in Southern Germany, is exceptional for two reasons: it provides the first evidence for a feathered carnivorous dinosaur that is not related to birds; and, according to Sci-News, it...
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Pic of the Day: 300 Million-Year-Old Cockroach
The image above is a reconstruction of a 305 million-year-old insect, which is believed to be an early predecessor of the cockroach. The reconstruction was made by scientists at the University of...
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Newly Found Fossils Show Origin Of ‘Curling Up’ Defensive Strategy
Rolling in the deep past: a struggle for life. You’re under attack! Quick, what do you do? One of the options is to curl up and protect your vulnerable parts, to roll your body into a little ball and...
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Why We Never Find Dinosaur Poo: New Explanation
Cockroach as maid? Yes, if you were a dinosaur. Imagine you finish high school and you decide to go to University and study Palaeontology, insipired by Jurassic Park movies. So you start to understand...
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